The executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach, Mark A. Peterson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aberbach, Joel D.

Peterson, Mark A., 1955-

Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.

Series:

Institutions of American democracy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive departments--United States.

Executive departments.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Contents:

General introduction : the executive branch as an institution of American democracy / Jaroslav Pelikan

Introduction : presidents and bureaucrats : the executive branch and American democracy / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson

The evolution of the presidency : between the promise and the fear / Scott C. James

The evolution of national bureaucracy in the United States / Daniel carpenter

Giving direction to government in comparative perspective / Richard Rose

Presidential elections and American democracy / Stephen J. Wayne

The executive office of the president : the paradox of politicization / Matthew J. Dickinson

Communicating from the White House : presidential narrowcasting and the national interest / Lawrence R. Jacobs

The person of the president, leadership, and greatness / Fred I. Greenstein

The complex organization of the executive branch : the legacies of competing approaches to administration / Colin Campbell

The federal public service : the people and the challenge / Patricia W. Ingraham

Caught in the middle : the president, Congress, and the political-bureaucratic system / Barry R. Weingast

Reforming the executive branch of the U.S. government / Donald F. Kettl

Executive power and political parties : the dilemmas of scale in American democracy / Sidney M. Milkis

The executive branch and the legislative process / Andrew Rudalevige

The courts, jurisprudence, and the executive branch / R. Shep Melnick

Federalism and the executive branch / Thomas Gais and James Fossett

Control and accountability : dilemmas of the executive branch / Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson.

Notes:

"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195173937

OCLC:

60796107

Publisher Number:

9780195173932